Last week Kevin Creamer, Liaison Coordinator for the University of Richmond’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, sat me down for a quick chat about information technologies in education. As you’ll hear in this podcast, Kevin was interested in some of the larger thinking behind my enthusiasm for particular technologies such as blogs and wikis. His questions afforded me some room to roam, and I also tried to give some shout-outs to a couple of folks who’ve helped me think about these topics over the years.
Twenty-five minutes of mulling, then, and if any of it keeps the conversation going, I’ll be happy. You can listen to the podcast here, or right-click/click-and-hold to download it. Gardner Writes is also on iTunes in the podcast directory. Someday soon I’ll upgrade my WP install here and put in PodPress (or equivalent). Soon.
More podcasts on the way: I need to finish up the Donne A Day series with the remainder of my students’ work (I’m woefully behind, and my apologies to them), and then begin another series of podcasts of Renaissance literature in English. Right now I’m trying to decide whether to read a series of essays by Montaigne (the Florio translation) or Bacon. If you have strong feelings either way, let me know.
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Wonderful stuff — I listened while making lunch for my boy, and if I spent a bit of imaginative energy I was back with you and Kevin at the In-N-Out three years ago (with Bryan uncharacteristically reserved). And you namechecking me halfway through was a fun surprise — all the more flattering since you made the point far more powerfully than I ever did, and I will do my best to carry a bit of your phrasing with me next time I trot out that riff…
Expanding our set of academic literacies so “we can enjoy our students’ mastery” of emeging media… Rigor as “being honestly puzzled”… oh yes, I soaked it up. Thanks for sharing. I feel like I should be serving Harry up a burger prepared animal style.
Three years … wow. Who knows where the time goes. Wherever, it’s golden moments like the one you remember that make me know that (to quote TW) it’s time … time … time that I love. Look at the extraordinary company it brings me.
Can’t wait for the reunion.
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